The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-09-20
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.
At the jubilee celebration at DENLY Dale
England, there was a pie weighing 24 tons
containing $40 pounds of flour, 230 pounds of
butter and lard, 225 birds of all sorts and O.
rabbits
Dr. William A. Hammond has been exam
lining Jay Gould's head to find out whethe
or not there was anything the matter inside
He did this with an electric thermometer
called calorimeter, wherein the heat is reg
stored be transformation to electricity. Mr.
Gould was troubled with neuralgia and los
sleep all summer, and was afraid bis braiI
was affected, but DR.. Hammond finds thu
heat just what it should be.
The British government has decided &c
give to the new magazine rifle with which
the army is to be supplied bore of 81
That seemed surprisingly small considering
that our last war was fought with ADORE of 80
This idea Of a small bore rifle has taken sucl
hold upon the minds of military experts il
Europe that the sma II bore will soon be gen
rifles for the Continental armies will b,
about .32.
Miss Lucy Salmon, the new Professor Of
History at Vassar College, is woman will
a future, in the opinion of the Woman'l
Journal. Her book, ''The Appointing Power
Of the President" Is the clearest monograph
that has appeared on that difficult subject
Miss Salmon is graduate of Michigan Uni
versity and a fellow of Bryn Mawr College
OF whose ten fellowships open to compete
ton seven are held by graduates of co-edu
cational schools. Miss Salmon is fine look
Ing, with a clear, open face, physically and
mentally healthy, and stcadfast looking.
While the centennial celebrations at Phil
adelphia were at their height the Episcopal
service for the dead was being read at
modest house on Second-street in Washing
ton, over the remains of Septima Randolph
Meikleham, who died on Wednesday, age6
70 years. She was the last surviving grand
child Of the author of the Declaration of In
dependence. Only few people, CONSISTING
OF the relatives and very intimate friends Of
the deceased were present. Mrs. Meikleham
was the daughter of Martha Jefferson, and
her father was Gov. Thomas NJ. Randolph,
Of Virginia. The Randolph estate was at
Edge Hill, lust across from Monticello, and
there she lived long after the Monticello es-
tate and the tomb of her illustrious grandpa
Their had passed into tho hands of strangers.
One OF her daughters, clerk in the Patent
Office, was recently dismissed, but was
promptly reinstated when it was found that
her salary contributed to the maintenance
OF Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter
Gen. W. w. Belknap, who. as secretary OF
war under President Grant, fell into disgrace,
is making his home this summer at the quiet
little village Of Powhattan Courthouse, Vir
ginia. There he boards with a private fami.
ly, and lives in seclusion. His time Is passed
among his books and in the cultivation o.
flowers. gentleman who had an interview
with Gen. Belknap sayss 1--WE found hin
in the hall reading light covered book
My companion, addressing the old man b,
name, asked him question about new va
riety Of tomato He rose from his seat, hold
ing his book in his hand as he replied, anG
seemed pleased as he talked about his gar
den. AS he conversed / observed that til,
speaker was above medium height and build
and stopped little in his shoulders He np
peared to be about 65 years Of age Hi
beard was gray, and stood out upon his face
like bristles. His hat, which he did not re.
move from his head, was beaver the worse
for wear. He wore an alpaca coat, rusty and
in one place torn, white vest with dark
spot, drab pants, shoes rusty and tied with
cotton strings. In fne he presented quite a
dowdy appearance, perhaps assumed to keep
u.
Capt Mitchell Cregan, the famous New
York Republican politician, died last Tues
day night He was picturesque member OF
the old-time Republican phalanx. For many
years he ruled the party in the 10th assem-.
bly, district of New York city without ques.
ton. His record as brave Union soldier
who fought his way up to the rank of cap.
tain, was unimpeached, and many time il
helped him in his fights with the silk stock
ing element. After the last election
charges were made against him CT selling
out Allen Thorndyke Rice, the candidate fol
Congress in the 10th district, and electine
Gen. Spinola, the Tammany candidate and
after long fight, he was expelled from the
made fight in the primary and won by 1.
votes, falling to the floor in fit when the re-
suit was announced. At the Republican
primaries last week he had not even ticket
in the field of delegates to the State conven-
ton, and the election OF Senator Evarts in
his old place at the head of the list of dele
gates, shut Cregan out, for the first time in
many years, from the State convention, OF
from any chance of reversing the verdict OF
the county committee.
When the Grand Duke Alexis OF Russia
was over here he attended Virginia bal
one evening. He signifed his royal desire to
dance with certain Richmond belle, and
one of his lackeys in lace was sent to inform
her. She courteously sent word that if he
desired dance he must come to her and gel
it like any other gentleman. He went. He
got it and appeared to enjoy it. The dance
over, he left her suddenly in the middle OF
the floor and strolled off. Her Southern
blood mounted and she coolly walked over
to him as he stood talking and very quietly
notified him that his act was ungcntlemanly.
He could not understand her. His English
had suddenly failed him, and she returned to
her seat without any apology. This did moi
end the matter. A young Southerner who
held her very highly in esteem no sooner
heard OF IT than he, too, went over to the
Grand Duke and tapped him lightly ON the
shoulder. The Interpreter was called into
service. Alexis was Informed that if he did
not apologize to that young lady the son Of
the Gar OF all the Russias would be thrashed
within an inch of his life unless he chose tC
get up early next morning and smell smoke
The Grand Duke apologized, and amply The
young people got married. and the honor OF
the South was impressed as deeply upon the
potentateet as If it had been burned in with
an iron.
Col. Joseph Cilley, of Nottingham, n H.,
who died at his home on Friday morning
was man of distinction in many respects
He was the Oldest ex-senator of the United
States, was the first anti-slavery Senator in
Congress and was veteran Of the War Of
1912. His ancestors were Of much note in
New Hampshire, the great-grandfather hay
ing settled in Nottingham in 1928, and the
grandfather, General Joseph Cilley, having
won fame as Revolutionary hero and an
officer on the staff of Washington. His
brother, Jonathan Cilley, who while MEM
berof Congress from Maine was killed in a
duel in 1888 near Washington, was Of note
In that his daring words against slavery are
SAID to have been the cause of his untimely
death. Joseph Cilley was born in Noting
nam on January 1871. In 1872 he entered
Llle army as ensign and fought at Sackett'
harDor, chippewa and Lundy's Lane His
senatorial term was short, but enabled him
70 form many pleasing acquantances with
webster, Calhoun, Benton and others. Az
the close OF his senatorial service Colonel
Cilley returned to his farm As early as
1920 he was pronounced Abolitionist and
for many years cast the only Abolition vote
in his town. He was the first Abolitionist
who held a seat in the United States Senate
and long before the voice Of John Hale and
Charles Sumner were heard in the Senate
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